You’re afraid to fall because you want to fly. You’re afraid to fail because you want to succeed. You’re afraid to try because you’re afraid to fail. You’re afraid to succeed because you want to stay the same. You want to stay the same because you think that change is death. You’re…

For the spaces in between… Remember to take a moment in that space between breaths Where the darkness has been, if only for an instant, forgotten Where the loneliness is, if only for an instant, at rest Remember the infinite nature of a single second in the present For if you can find the stillness that exists in this space You can give thanks for that peace and be content Remember not to worry about what comes after or what came before Give your mind to what is, to the now The world is here for you, and you are here for the world

Rules to remember in relationships and in life. (Disclaimer: The intro is long. Feel free to skip it.) I’m going to do something a lot of people don’t like: I’m going to embrace the framework of traditional binary gender stereotypes to discuss communication and rules for life. I’m not saying…

Do not be complicit in your own slow demise. — Depression is like grief. Not the acute mourning of a loved one’s passing or an ended relationship, but the chronic mourning of one’s own slow death by self-limitation and obsession with a self-imposed reality. Originally? Perhaps not. I didn’t ask to be prone to these moods. Neither did my mother…

When “social progress” becomes an excuse for self-indulgence. It was early in my entertainment career, soon after I shifted my focus from dance to film. It was an opportunity that had the potential to change my life. I had been cast as a body double for a character on the…

When you feel you cannot trust your happiness. — When you feel you cannot trust your happiness. It’s a strange, somewhat mysterious thing that happens. You become afraid of feeling relief. You become afraid of feeling good. For some, it’s a matter of identity. You have come to think of yourself as the same as that heaviness that has…

You say you do, and oh you say it with such sureness that when I hear the words it stops my world. — You say you do, and oh you say it with such sureness that when I hear the words it stops my world. My worries, my fears, those little hurts — they hold their breath and their voices go quiet, just for a moment. For an hour or a day or…

The greatest lie of a sick soul is that we are alone in the universe. — The greatest lie of a sick soul is that we are alone in the universe. I know this lie well. It is the ever-enduring refrain of my own mind. I’ve tried, time and time again, to convince myself otherwise. To defeat this sorrowful cry that so often fills my heart…

The voices in my head are whispers of my past. — The voices in my head are whispers of my past. They are my pain and my trauma brought to life, begging me not to let it all happen again. Sometimes, when I’m feeling lost and forgotten, when I’m deep underwater and I cannot see the sun, I listen to those…